The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 26

Prince Mannikin in his turn told his own history, and the great undertaking upon which he had set out, and King Bayard was able to give him some valuable instructions as to which would be the best way for him to proceed, and then they went together to the place where the boat had been left.

Who acts: Mannikin, King Bayard, instructions · What happens: tell, set out, be, give, proceed, go together · To what, where: own history, Mannikin, valuable instructions, best way, place, boat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mannikin, King Bayard, instructions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mannikin	nmod:desc
2	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 turn	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 turn	nmod:poss
5	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mannikin	nmod
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 history	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 history	amod
9	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 undertaking	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 undertaking	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 undertaking	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 undertaking	amod
14	undertaking	undertaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	conj
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 set	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 set	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 set	aux
19	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 undertaking	acl:relcl
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 set	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 able	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 able	cc
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Bayard	compound
24	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 able	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 able	cop
26	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 told	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 give	mark
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 able	xcomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 give	iobj
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 instructions	det
31	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 instructions	amod
32	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 give	obj
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 way	mark
34	to	to	ADP	_	33 as	fixed
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 way	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 way	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 way	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 way	det
39	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 way	amod
40	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obl:unmarked
41	for	for	SCONJ	_	44 proceed	mark
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 proceed	nsubj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 proceed	mark
44	proceed	proceed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	40 way	acl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 went	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 went	cc
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 went	advmod
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 went	nsubj
49	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	parataxis
50	together	together	ADV	_	49 went	advmod
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 place	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 place	det
53	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 went	obl
54	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	59 left	advmod
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 boat	det
56	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 left	nsubj:pass
57	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 left	aux
58	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	59 left	aux:pass
59	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 place	acl:relcl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Mannikin Prince in Mannikin's turn	Mannikin's own history					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent history=Recipient
2	set out	past · perfect · passive		Mannikin				upon the great undertaking	tree rules
3	is	past	King Bayard					able property	tree rules
4	give	to-infinitive	King Bayard not said here	some valuable instructions	Mannikin				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient instruction=Theme
5	is a	would		the best way					tree rules
6	proceed	to-infinitive	Mannikin						vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	go together	past	instructions = instruction			the place	then	together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
8	leave	past · perfect · passive		the boat					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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